May 24, 2021
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A security guard who worked for a Hong Kong business tycoon has admitted trying to extort HK$100 million (S$17 million) from his ex-employer last year using a nude video of the man’s wife.
The District Court heard that Wong Hin-chung conspired with two others to press his former boss into buying the 24-second tape he took after seeing security camera footage of the woman, whom prosecutors described as a well-known celebrity, getting changed at her home six to seven years before the incident.
Wong, 51, and his conspirators – delivery man Kwong Hung Kwong, 58, and bodyguard Michael Tsui Man-kit, 46 – face up to seven years in prison after they pleaded guilty to a joint charge of conspiracy to blackmail on Friday (May 21).